Tony Cheng
Senior Backend Engineer at Drivemode
San Jose, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolTony Cheng is a seasoned backend engineer with 11 years of experience building API-centric, cloud-native systems and security platforms. He has driven scalable, modular architectures and microservice refactors at Palo Alto Networks for Prisma Cloud, including AI-powered anomaly detection and an AI Copilot backend. Now at Drivemode, he’s focused on launching robust backend systems for an automotive product with Honda, blending security-first design and production-grade monitoring. His background spans startups to enterprise security—implementing everything from TensorFlow image recognition and MapReduce pipelines to Okta SSO automation and RFID/mobile integrations. Tony’s cross-functional leadership emphasizes measurable reliability improvements (structured logging, configurable dashboards) and pragmatic reduction of technical debt. Based in San Jose with a Computer Science degree from University of Michigan, he pairs deep systems experience with a knack for translating research/ML models into operational services.
11 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science at University of Michigan
English
Github Skills (4)
singing10
reimplementation9
player7
bug-reporting2
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
SugoiFactory/SkillKeeper
Oct 2014 - Mar 2017
Contributions:21 commits, 7 PRs, 15 pushes in 2 years 5 months
trueskillplayer-basedbookkeepingratingsplayer
zarzob/Simply-Love-SM5
Jul 2022 - Feb 2023
a StepMania 5 theme for the post-ITG community
Contributions:1 release, 2 reviews, 67 commits in 7 months
stepmania
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